Child homicide

Is this nation going to be known as a child murderer? The rate at which child homicide, including filicide, is committed all across the country should be enough to earn it this infamous epithet. According to a leading Bangla contemporary, a child is done to death almost every single day. Up to February 18, this year 45 children were killed and the previous year the number of such murder was 48 in the first two months. Quoting the Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), the newspaper also presents some chilling accounts of child abuse in various forms. For example, in the year 2016 almost half of the number of rape victims, were children (below 18 years of age) and more than half of these were under 12 years of age. There were also 46 children below the age six. 
Why is this targeted brutality to children? One answer is that they are weak and defenceless. But this is their attribute too. In a civilised society children are treated with care and in some societies scolding children is looked down upon, let alone meting out corporal punishment. Children irrespective of their social status are gifted with innocence, simplicity and all things angelic. Killing them for exacting revenge on adversaries has now become more like a pastime for some cowardly brutes. In the days of epics, manly valour rather used to challenge an enemy in an open fight instead of secret killing. These days there are courts to settle disputes but some diabolic minds take revenge on political and other opponents by victimising the latter's children. 
At some point, though, brutality to children became synonymous with cruelty to animals. In the case of Rajon and Rakib murders, the oppressive and insane mentality of their torturers was on flagrant display. Their oppressors were so mindless to unleash their ruthlessness on the child victims in a manner as if they were playing a prank. The physical pain and ordeal suffered by their victims were none of their concern. Instead they derived a sadistic pleasure.
True, in Bangladesh the majority of people love children. But then the number of child abusers is also growing. Adult rapaciousness is taking society by storm with children bearing a major share of the brunt. Greed and material possessiveness are reigning supreme and before those insatiable mental aberrations, reason and rational behaviour prove no restraint. When filicide take place at the hands of a mother, there is an attempt to paint her as mentally unstable or of lose character. 
When a mother kills her children before bringing an end to her life, the explanation may not be so simplistic. In her desperation she does so. She loves her children no less than any other mother but when she visualises that in her absence the children will be subjected to torture and perhaps go hungry, she makes her mind in agony for the worst against her own will. Children fall victim to parental hatred for each other over either poor wherewithal or other affairs. When a father kills his own sons or daughters, it is either in a fit of temper or to take revenge on his wife. Usually this happens in lower class families. 
The fact is more people now seem to be after blood. The bloody mindset is further incited by easy access to the media, including social media. When a new type of crime is committed, incidents of similar nature go on a spree soon. Crime is not just a pattern; it also causes to raise the ugly head of a serpent within many people.